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Review 4 Front Video / Sleepless In Seattle [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Hanks
  • Nora Ephron
  • Ross Malinger
  • Bill Pullman
  • Rosie O'Donnell
  • Meg Ryan
Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.99

Review Sleepless In Seattle [1993] / 4 Front Video:

The director and stars of 1998's You've Got Mail scored a breakthrough hit with this hugely popular romantic comedy from 1993, about a recently engaged woman (Meg Ryan) who hears the sad story of a grieving widower (Tom Hanks) on the radio and believes that they are destined to be together. She's single in New York, he lives in Seattle with a young son, but the cross-country attraction proves irresistible and pretty soon Meg's on a westbound flight. What happens from there is. well, you must have been living in a cave to have let this sweet-hearted comedy slip below your pop-cultural radar. There's little complexity or depth to writer-director Nora Ephron's cheesy tale of a romantic fait accompli, and more than a little contrivance to the subplots that threaten to keep Hanks and Ryan from actually meeting. But the purity of star chemistry here is hard to deny, and this may be the first film to indicate the more serious and sympathetic side of Hanks that is revealed in later roles. With its clever jokes about "chick movies" and repeated homage to the classic weeper An Affair to Remember, this may not be everybody's brand of amorous entertainment, but it's got an old-Hollywood charm that appeals to many a movie fan. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. [+]
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Review Pathe Distribution / An Ideal Husband [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Oliver Parker
  • Jeremy Northam
  • Minnie Driver
  • Rupert Everett
  • Julianne Moore
  • Cate Blanchett
Release date: 2000-04-10
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £11.99

Review An Ideal Husband [1999] / Pathe Distribution:

For truly clever dialogue and a smartly structured plot, you can't go wrong with Oscar Wilde. Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is not his best known, but this film adaptation has all the wit you could ask for and a cast with the chops to deliver it: Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth, Oscar and Lucinda), Julianne Moore (Boogie Nights, Short Cuts), Minnie Driver (Grosse Pointe Blank, Big Night), Jeremy Northam (The Winslow Boy, Emma), and especially Rupert Everett (My Best Friend's Wedding, A Midsummer Night's Dream), who tosses off perfect epigrams with unflappable aplomb. The plot hinges on Northam, a member of Parliament (the British governing body, not the funk band) with a skeleton in his closet who is blackmailed into a shady business deal by a lady of mystery (Moore), who turns out to be a loathed school chum of the parliamentarian's wife (Blanchett). Everything is resolved happily, but not until after some devious twists of fate, several mistaken identities, lots of comic banter, and much social skewering. Wilde, whose troubled life and public exposure of his homosexuality is chronicled in the movie Wilde (1997), has a sharp eye for hypocrisy and the artificial poses demanded by society-but political commentary never gets in the way of a smart laugh. Visually sumptuous and briskly paced, An Ideal Husband will satisfy anyone looking for social satire or romantic comedy. -Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

Review Mosaic Movies / A Smile Like Yours
Actors & Directors
  • Jay Thomas
  • Joan Cusack
  • Greg Kinnear
  • Jill Hennessy
  • Lauren Holly
  • Keith Samples
Release date: 2003-03-24
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £39.97

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Review Tartan Video / Wild Target [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Pierre Salvadori
  • Jean Rochefort
  • Guillaume Depardieu
  • Marie Trintignant
  • Wladimir Yordanoff
  • Patachou
Release date: 1994-11-14
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £15.99

Review Wild Target [1994] / Tartan Video:


Actors & Directors
  • jerry rees
  • kim basinger
  • alec baldwin
  • elisabeth shue
Run time: 112 min.

Review too hot to handle / hollywood pictures:

alec baldwin,kim basinger,elisabeth shue. sexy romantic comedy.

Review Warner Home Video / Tin Cup [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Cheech Marin
  • Ron Shelton
  • Rene Russo
  • Don Johnson
  • Linda Hart
  • Kevin Costner
Release date: 1997-10-27
Run time: 129 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.90

Review Tin Cup [1996] / Warner Home Video:

One of the better romantic comedies of the 1990s, this quirky love story stars Kevin Costner as washed-up golf pro, Roy "Tin Cup" McAvoy, who has the singular misfortune of falling in love with the girlfriend (Rene Russo) of his arch rival (Don Johnson). Although he is inspired to re-ignite his golf career, challenge his opponent in the US Open, and win the affection of the woman of his dreams, McAvoy has just one flaw: he's a show off when he should just focus on playing the game. Reunited with his Bull Durham writer-director Ron Shelton, Costner fits into his Tin Cup role like a favourite pair of shoes and costar Cheech Marin scores a memorable scene-stealing comeback as McAvoy's best buddy, Romeo Posar. Mixing his love of sports with his flair for fresh, comedic dialogue, Shelton takes this enjoyable movie down unexpected detours (although some may find it a bit too long), and his characters are delightfully unpredictable. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Warner Brothers / Bride Came C.O.D
Actors & Directors
  • William Keighley
  • Bette Davis
  • James Cagney
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £13.99

Review Bride Came C.O.D / Warner Brothers:

Warner Home Video. Terrific comedy with its two major stars playing off each other perfectly.

Review 4 Front Video / Bridget Jones - The Edge Of Reason
Actors & Directors
  • Beeban Kidron
  • Hugh Grant
  • Colin Firth
  • Renee Zellweger
  • Gemma Jones
  • Jim Broadbent
Release date: 2005-10-10
Run time: 108 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.01

Review Bridget Jones - The Edge Of Reason / 4 Front Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / How Stella Got Her Groove Back [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Regina King
  • Angela Bassett
  • Suzzanne Douglass
  • Taye Diggs
  • Whoopi Goldberg
  • Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Release date: 2000-01-31
Run time: 119 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.25

Review How Stella Got Her Groove Back [1999] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back, stars Angela Bassett as a 40-year-old, Manhattan stock trader and single mother whose static life gets a jolt during a vacation with her pal (Whoopi Goldberg) in Jamaica. Sparks fly when Bassett meets a 20-year-old stud (Taye Diggs) who has an ambivalent career path but a great body and lots of sexual energy to burn. After some prodding by Goldberg's warm-funny secondary character, Bassett gets it on with the fellow-and proceeds to worry about what she's doing with a man half her age. The film is most enjoyable in its sunny, exotic early scenes and becomes more formulaic once the unlikely couple transports their will-we-stay-together-or-won't-we tensions back to the Big Apple. But director Kevin Rodney Sullivan goes out of his way to make a movie unabashedly thick with fantasy and wish-fulfilment for female audiences (it's Diggs who reveals a lot more flesh than the regal Bassett). This is a Saturday-night movie all around. -Tom Keogh.

Review 4 Front Video / Arizona Dream [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Johnny Depp
  • Jerry Lewis
  • Faye Dunaway
  • Emir Kusturica
  • Lili Taylor
Release date: 1999-04-12
Run time: 135 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £14.51

Review Arizona Dream [1995] / 4 Front Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Sliding Doors [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeanne Tripplehorn
  • Peter Howitt
  • John Lynch
  • Gwyneth Paltrow
  • John Hannah
Release date: 1999-06-07
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.23

Review Sliding Doors [1998] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Nice concept, shaky execution-that about sums up the mixed blessings of British actor Peter Howitt's intelligent but forgivably flawed debut as a writer-director. It's got more emotional depth than most frothy romantic comedies and its central idea-the parallel tracking of two possible destinies for a young London professional played by Gwyneth Paltrow-is full of involving possibilities. It's essentially a what-if scenario with Helen (Paltrow) at the centre of two slightly but significantly different romantic trajectories, one involving her two-timing boyfriend (John Lynch)and the other with an amiable chap (John Hannah) who represents a happier outcome. That's the film's basic problem, however: the two scenarios are so romantically unbalanced (one guy's a total cad, the other charmingly sincere) that Helen inadvertently comes off looking foolish and needlessly confused. Still, this remains a pleasant experiment and Howitt's dialogue is witty enough to keep things entertaining. It's also a treat for Paltrow fans; not only does the svelte actress handle a British accent without embarrassing herself but she gets to play two subtle variations of the same character, sporting different wardrobes and hairstyles in a role that plays into her glamorous off-screen persona. -Jeff Shannon.

Review 4 Front Video / Send Me No Flowers [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Norman Jewison
  • Tony Randall
  • Rock Hudson
  • Paul Lynde
  • Hal March
  • Doris Day
Release date: 2001-12-27
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.99

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Review Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Green Card [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Bebe Neuwirth
  • Gregg Edelman
  • Andie MacDowell
  • Peter Weir
  • Gérard Depardieu
  • Robert Prosky
Release date: 2000-12-27
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.50

Review Green Card [1996] / Buena Vista Home Entertainment:

In the delightful romantic comedy Green Card, Georges (Gérard Depardieu), a composer and one-time petty thief who grew up in poverty, attempts to escape his life in Paris and begin anew in America by illegally marrying Bronte (Andie MacDowell), a prim and repressed young lady from a privileged life in Connecticut. Bronte, who has agreed to the scheme for her own self-serving reasons, is exasperated when the Immigration & Naturalisation Service investigates their case, and she and Georges, whom she detests, must spend time together studying each other's lives to avoid disaster. The fallout is infinitely better handled than any run-of-the-mill Hollywood romantic comedy, and the very ending itself stops deliciously short of where Hollywood would feel compelled to drag the story. Fine performances are given by MacDowell, Depardieu-who is fiercely charming pounding the keyboard of a Steinway at an upper class Manhattan dinner party-and Bebe Neuwirth, who is perfect as an upper-class child turned artist who revels in her irresponsibility. -James McGrath, Amazon. com.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / While You Were Sleeping [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Gallagher
  • Bill Pullman
  • Sandra Bullock
  • Jon Turteltaub
  • Peter Boyle
  • Jack Warden
Release date: 2003-02-03
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.98

Review While You Were Sleeping [1995] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

If you don't mind a heavy dose of schmaltz and sentiment, this romantic comedy has a gentle way of seducing you with its charms. While You Were Sleeping was the first starring role for Sandra Bullock after her blockbuster success in Speed. In a role that nicely emphasises her easygoing appeal, Bullock is the reason the movie works at all. She plays Lucy Eleanor Moderatz, a Chicago Transit tollbooth clerk who's hopelessly smitten with a daily commuter, Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher). She saves the object of her affection from certain death after he's mugged and falls onto the train tracks. While Peter is in a coma, she lets his family believe that she is his fiancée, and surprisingly finds herself drawn to his brother (Bill Pullman), for whom the attraction is definitely mutual. How Lucy gets out of this amorous predicament is what makes this pleasant movie less predictable than its familiar ingredients would initially indicate. It's feel-good fluff, with characters and performances that keep you smiling through the drippy plot mechanics. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Warner Home Video / The Main Event [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Howard Zieff|Barbra Streisand|Ryan O'Neal|Paul Sand
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.49

Review The Main Event [1979] / Warner Home Video:

A comedic misfire from the mid-1970s, Main Event is a futile attempt to bottle the same lightning that struck when Barbra Streisand teamed up with Ryan O'Neal in What's Up, Doc?. Here, Streisand plays a spoiled rich girl, the head of a bankrupt cosmetics company, who discovers she has lost everything-except her ownership of the contract of a washed-up boxer (O'Neal, known for his combative nature off-screen). So she tries to rally this dispirited pug into a comeback that will earn the kinds of purses that will put her back on her feet. Naturally, in the process romantic sparks are kindled. However, despite a loud and energetic performance by Streisand, this Howard Zieff comedy doesn't add up to much. -Marshall Fine.

Review New Line Home Video VHS / Overnight Delivery
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Rudd
  • Buffy Sedlachek
  • Jason Bloom
  • Christine Taylor
  • Reese Witherspoon
  • Sarah Silverman
Run time: 84 min.

Review Overnight Delivery / New Line Home Video VHS:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Kate Hudson
  • Matthew McConaughey
  • Donald Petrie
  • Annie Parisse
  • Adam Goldberg
  • Kathryn Hahn
Release date: 2003-10-06
Run time: 111 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.89

Review How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days [2003] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Kate Hudson twinkles as the heroine of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. She's a magazine writer assigned to date a guy, make all the mistakes girls make that drive guys away (being clingy, talking in baby-talk and so on) and records the process like a sociological experiment. However, the guy she picks- Matthew McConaughey-is an advertising executive who's just bet that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days; if he succeeds, he'll win a huge account that will make his career. The set-up is completely absurd, but the collision of their efforts to woo and repel creates some pretty funny scenes. McConaughey's easy charm and Hudson's lightweight impishness play well together and the plot, though strictly Hollywood formula, chugs along efficiently. At moments Hudson seems to channel her mother, Goldie Hawn, to slightly unnerving effect. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Universal 9052753 / The Making of Bridget Jones's Diary
Actors & Directors
  • Renee Zellweger
  • Hugh Grant
  • Colin Firth
Run time: 23 min.

Review The Making of Bridget Jones's Diary / Universal 9052753:

The Making of Bridget Jones's diary features exclusive interviews with the author Helen Fielding, Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth among others, talking about the origins of the story. This programme offers a unique and funny insight into the making of one of the most successful romantic comedies.

Review Pathe Distribution / The Wedding Planner [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Justin Chambers
  • Matthew McConaughey
  • Judy Greer
  • Adam Shankman
  • Bridgette Wilson
  • Jennifer Lopez
Release date: 2002-01-21
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.99

Review The Wedding Planner [2001] / Pathe Distribution:

The good news is, yes, Jennifer Lopez can do comedy. In The Wedding Planner Lopez is Mary, a lovable woman who believes "those who can't do, teach. Those who can't wed, plan!" Her slapstick moments are light-hearted and offer a spot-on performance as the compulsive-yet-sweet planner. The bad news is Lopez didn't get much of a vehicle in which to test drive her newfound comedic skills. The main problem with this film is that no one wants to hurt anyone else's feelings. Everyone is just so gosh-darn nice. In a subplot, Mary's father is trying to arrange her marriage to just the nicest Italian boy. Gee, he's sweet. Golly, Mary's rival in love Fran is so nice. Yet, there is a touch of old-fashioned romance to this wholesome film, which can only be described as "cute. [+]
" While things may unfold in a predictable manner, The Wedding Planner is still light-hearted fun of the sort that inspires dreamy romantic thoughts. -Jenny Brown, Amazon. com On the DVD: The Wedding Planner on disc has a soft focus to the widescreen 2. 35:1 image which is perfect for this purely entertaining romantic comedy fluff. The soundtrack is done well with both the dialogue and music coming through crisp and clear and despite the fact that this DVD doesn't set out to be a special edition there is more than enough to keep extras features fans happy. There's a good audio commentary from director Adam Shankman and writers Pamela Falk and Michael Ellism as well as a couple of rough-cut deleted scenes with commentary, and two featurettes-one on the making of the film and the second on the choreography of the tango sequence. -Kristen Bowditch.

Review MGM Entertainment / Born Romantic [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Ian Hart
  • David Kane
  • Adrian Lester
  • Catherine McCormack
  • Jane Horrocks
  • Craig Ferguson
Release date: 2002-02-04
Run time: 141 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.49

Review Born Romantic [2001] / MGM Entertainment:

Born Romantic is a second slice of what David (This Year's Love) Kane does best: a quirky picture of contemporary London with young and variously screwed-up protagonists getting a second chance at love. This time, the premise is that there is a salsa club somewhere in East London where three boys meet three girls and things go other than smoothly until they actually take the trouble to learn to dance-and in case we didn't guess the metaphoric point of this, Olivia Williams' cold control freak lays it out for Craig Ferguson's Dean Martin obsessed retro-lounge singer at an early stage. The other central characters are Jane Horrocks as a party girl who is not exactly keen to pick up again with David Morissey, the man who jilted her years earlier and who has now come to London to make amends; and Jimi Mistry as an incompetent thief who falls for a neurotic grave-tender. Adrian Lester is the widower mini-cab driver who listens to all six moan about each other and dispenses wisdom on a regular basis; back at the cab office, Ian Hart rants misogynistically until Kenneth Cranham tells him he is wrong. The stylised and schematic script is redeemed by loud La tin music and an affection for these characters' quirks. On the DVD: The DVD is generously filled with deleted scenes, the trailer and extended interviews with Kane and most of the stars: Horrocks and Williams in particular talk intelligently about the challenges and advantages of working as part of an ensemble cast. The recorded sound is just good enough to give the dance-club scenes a real energy. -Roz Kaveney.

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Sleepless In Seattle [1993], An Ideal Husband [1999], A Smile Like Yours, Wild Target [1994], too hot to handle, Tin Cup [1996], Bride Came C.O.D, Bridget Jones - The Edge Of Reason, How Stella Got Her Groove Back [1999], Arizona Dream [1995], Sliding Doors [1998], Send Me No Flowers [1964], Green Card [1996], While You Were Sleeping [1995], The Main Event [1979], Overnight Delivery, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days [2003], The Making of Bridget Jones's Diary, The Wedding Planner [2001], Born Romantic [2001]

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